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Developed by two educators with experience in both elementary and secondary classrooms, Writing Effective Lesson Plans details a unique a step-by-step procedure designed to streamline the process of lesson planning and make teaching smoother and more efficient. Coined the "Five-Star Lesson Plan" by the authors, this model consists of five classic components: lesson description, goals and objectives, materials and tools, procedures, and reflective assessment and evaluation.  This workbook guides beginning and experienced teachers through each step to create lesson plans that best meet the needs of every student.  It also explores the inherent challenges to effective lesson planning, such as time efficiency, knowledge construction, skill development, involving the students’ families, and implementing your plan.  With its mix of concise theory and hands-on activities, this book is a one-stop resource encouraging a deep and thoughtful approach to a skill that is often not sufficiently developed in teacher preparation programs. ... Read more

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NO STARS!
Hi, I too thought this was a good book, until I tried to use it. It gives cursory explanations but no real details or examples. Some of the topics (including the "topic" section) seem interchangeable with others because this book's explanations are too vague. None of the information is new. Previously I was a preschool teacher and we learned this 5 step process 15 years ago. It was covered more clearly in one chapter of the text for the ECE class than this entire text. Don't waste your money. Not worth it. (If you look @ my review history, I only talk about texts that are a waste of money. I earned an "A" in the class that this text is for, w/o the help of this text. It was too frustrating to bother with).

Best textbook for teaching
I have had to buy, and slog through, many textbooks for my teaching credential coursework. This book is by far the most useful, practical, and readable. So many books concentrate on theory. This book is a how to on lesson planning. It is a valuable tool for organizing your lesson, step by step, keeping all learners in mind. With an organized lesson, students are engaged, class time is maximized, and classroom management problems are minimized. This book is a keeper!

Lesson Planning
Very laborious book, but very step by step for those that need such complete detail

Excellent for planning and implementing a successful lesson
I came across this title as I was doing some research for my graduate studies. I wish that I had this book when I was doing my student teaching years ago! This is an excellent guide for creating effective lesson plans, and I like the fact that it combines both theory and hands-on activities. The 5-star approach here comprises lesson description, goals and objectives, materials and tools, procedures, and reflective assessment and evaluation.

The chapters are as follows:
Ch. 1: Structure and Stages of Development -covers the basics in terms of preparation, development, implementation of instructional methodologies, and reflection, and sequencing lesson components.
Ch. 2: Lesson Description - provides an overview of the 5-star approach, how to provide a description of the lesson (date, subject, topic, grade) and practice sheets.
Ch. 3: Goals and Objectives - how to write goals and objectives. Stresses the need for objectives to be tangible.
Ch. 4: Materials and Tools - includes technology applications such as word processor, video, e-mail, web browser, audio and projection. Handouts and manipulatives are also covered, and ideas on designing an elementary and secondary classroom.
Ch. 5: Procedure - types of procedures, activities, strategies, fieldwork, homework/extension activities, etc.
Ch. 6: Reflective Assessment and Evaluation - student-teacher-parent conference, learning assessment and revision, testing, authentic assessment & evaluation, and metacognition.
Ch. 7: Time Efficiency in Teaching and Learning - how to time lesson activities, time management and lesson variables, time for self-directed learning, etc.
Ch. 8 : Knowledge Construction and Skill Development - organizing, structuring, and modeling in education.
Ch. 9: Course and Lesson: Strategic and Tactical Planning - provides an algorithm of a lesson plan
Ch. 10: Implementing the Plan - students' diversity, state standards, balance in a lesson plan, execution,etc.
Ch. 11: Extending the Lesson Plan to Home
Ch. 12: Teacher Professional Competence - five fundamental competences

There are also appendices that include sample lesson plans, and a 5-star lesson plan worksheet, and also a glossary, suggested reading, and index.

Conclusion - this is a handy and practical resource for novice teachers, but can also be used by experienced teachers looking to refine their lesson plans.

Great Book!!!
"Writing Effective Lesson Plans: The 5-Star Approach" is a very practical book that provides hands-on activities on lesson construction. The reproducible activity work sheets are a plus. My students just love them. I have used this book in my Internship classes, but it can be used at any level. I like the focus on all learners including the ELL and ESL students. I recommend this book highly for any teacher preparation program. Well prepared lesson plans are a recipe for effective teaching. This is one of the best books I have used on the subject of lesson planning.Valuable teaching tool.
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The Teacher?s Right Hand is a resource guide for upper elementary and middle school language arts teachers.It was written by educator, Kimberly S. Gibbons to help teacherswork with the average learner. ... Read more

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Awesome Teacher Resource
The Teacher's Right Hand is an educator's dream.It really does have practical, ready to use activities.I refer to this resource several times a week, and my students thoroughly enjoy the teacher-created games.If you are a middle school educator, this book is a must have!

Excellent Resource For Teachers and Parents
I found this book to be an excellent resource for teachers and parents.This book has numerous activities that can be used either in the classroom or by parents at home.I found each of the activities to be very detailed, outlining the objectives, and needed materials. The book contains numerous reproducible transparencies and worksheets.

This book has helped me to organize my daily instruction and has saved me hours in planning time!!!I also use it at home with my own children.This is an exellent resource and HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!!! ... Read more

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Effective Writing for the Week
This book is great for my first grade students.The 28 topics can be correlated to the curriculum subjects or reading topic I am focusing on for the week.The lessons offer book links, as well as guided and independent lessons for each topic.It takes a week to complete each topic.Which is great because it provides a step by step approach about how to present the subject matter and having the students prepared for independent writing and publishing on the topic at the end of the week.Teaching the Six traits?This provides excellent modeling of the traits. ... Read more

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Basic Writing Skills for Young Authors. This resource provides help with the basics of beginning writing-helping students learn to organize what they want to say, discover vocabulary to say it, and use structure to write it. Each skill is introduced at the oral level so students can readily formulate their ideas before trying to write them on paper. Activities address five stages of writing (pre-emergent, emergent, early, developing, and established) to help beginning writers progress through a continuum of skills. Written by Jo Fitzpatrick, author of Phonemic Awareness and Reading Strategies That Work! ... Read more

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Over 100 pages of fully reproducible activities and handouts to teach your students how to write great essays--with teacher guides to help you through the process! This fully reproducible book provides all of the necessary materials for complete coverage of essay study, including: essay terminology, types of essays, essay organization, how to read an essay prompt, writing effective titles, writing grabbers, writing topic sentences, piecing the essay together, essay evaluation activities, sample essays for evaluation, pre-writing graphic organizers, a list of words to avoid, a list of commonly misspelled words, activities for adding transitions, activities for finding and evaluating sources for research papers, activities for finding and integrating quotes for response to literature essays, and much, much more! With Essay Architect, students have the opportunity to practice every step of the process before actually writing an essay, and learn how to evaluate and assess other essays to recognize high-quality, well-written, as well as poorly-written, weak writing in order to perfect their own writing. With the Essay Architect system, you will no longer have to take the time to teach and re-teach your students the necessary skills of essay writing. Your students will have learned the vocabulary, structure and essential elements of essay writing the first time. From then on, you will only have to work to help your students sharpen their essays with heightened vocabulary, stronger evidence, and higher-level thinking. ... Read more

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Expected more for the $
I just received this book so I haven't used it with my students yet, but just leafing through it I was disappointed.There wasn't as much to it as I'd expected.It looks like a useful workbook, but I have found similar at teaching tools stores for half the price.

Good for MPE
I have been teaching a remedial English class dedicated to helping students pass our state writing test for high school graduation.The handouts and worksheets from this book have been very helpful in raising my students' abilities. ... Read more

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This book has everything you need to write your first lesson plan. The author puts everything he knows about lesson plans into simple, understandable language so that you can easily learn all there is to know about writing a great lesson plan. Inside this book, you will learn:

- The Lesson Plan Basics: Easy guidelines on how to create your first lesson plan.

- Goals and Objectives: Important keys to getting your lesson plan on the right course with your students.

- Necessary Prerequisites and Materials: How to make sure your students don't miss anything.

- Your Lesson Introduction: How to engage and empower your students to learn.

- The Heart of the Matter: How to make sure your students have that "aha" moment by constructing a good main activity.

- Driving it Home: Keys to constructing a great independent activity to really drive your lesson plan home.

- Follow-up: Simple pointers to help you make sure your students retain what you've taught them.

- Assessment and Evaluation: How to assess your lesson plan's effectiveness.

- Adaptations: Learn how to modify your lesson plan to different situations and circumstances.

- Most Common Lesson Plan Mistakes: How to avoid them so you don't make the same mistake like so many others.

- Writing Activities: How to create writing activities that will help grow your students' abilities and comprehension.

- Lesson Plan Format: How to come up with your own very powerful lesson plan.

- Two Sample Lesson Plans: Will help you construct your very first highly effective lesson plan.

If you've ever been interested in writing a lesson plan, but didn't know where to start, then I encourage you to learn from the author's experience and get started on the right footing. This book contains everything you need to know in order to help you create an amazing classroom experience! ... Read more

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useful book
I have been a teacher for 6 years and have devised a lot of lesson plans in that time, but I still found this book useful. It is small, easy to read and helped me find a few mistakes I made in my lesson plans. ... Read more

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Grades: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Reading Level: 3-8. Total Page: 240. ... Read more

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Grades: 3-8. Reading Level: 3-8. Total Page: 80. ... Read more

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Writing Effective Lesson Plans: The 5-Star Approach [Paperback]Peter Serdyukov(Author) , Mark Ryan (Author) ... Read more

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Lesson plans are required of all K-12 teachers. DAILY PLANNING FOR TODAY'S CLASSROOM instructs pre-service or in-service teachers how to write effective plans that in turn promote student learning. ... Read more

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Selling Used As New
This book was purchased under the impression that it was NEW.I paid the NEW price for it, and yet somehow a used book arrived at my door. This was a direct from AMAZON purchase and not with an affilate. So i guess you may not even trust that Amazon will tell you the truth about the condition of an item.

Great
As the disabilities host on BellaOnline, this book is a must for beginning teachers to learn how to formulate excellent lesson plans and activities.

This book is an absolute must for new teachers
I heartily recommend this book!As a school administrator, I can attest to the fact that it has made a world of difference for both new and experienced teachers alike in my school.Its approach to bridging the gapbetween theory and real-world examples is extremely useful in helping anyteacher design more effective lesson plans. ... Read more

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Why do students often graduate from high school unprepared for college writing? And what can we do about it?

These are the questions that a group of classroom teachers set out to explore. Over the course of seven years, a group of middle, high school, college, and university teachers participated in a federally funded writing coalition project to implement innovative approaches to teaching writing. Together they developed this series of lesson plans designed to make writing both fun and an integral part of diverse curricula.

"Practical" is the recurrent motif of each teaching strategy. Developed by real teachers in real classrooms, the lessons are grouped into seven categories: writing process, portfolios, literature, research, grammar, writing on demand, and media.

Each lesson follows a standard format that includes purpose of the activity; necessary preparation; required props and materials; process and procedure for implementation; instructional pointers and/or possible pitfalls; and reflections from the teacher that provide "behind the scenes" insights. ... Read more